Solar power has quietly pulled ahead of coal and gas in Germany’s electricity mix, even though the country is better known ...

Germany gets less sun than the entire continental US, and yet almost a fifth of its electrical generation was done by solar ...

Officials in Germany are scaling back their plans to develop more natural gas–fired power plants, as the government wants to ...

ESSEN, Germany — In a coal heartland of Germany stands a monument to the source of its economic might: a giant mine more than a half-mile deep that once produced the largest amount of coal in the ...

Even green Europeans would rather tap coal than face the reality of overdependence on unreliable renewable energy. Late last month, Germany’s energy regulator said the country needs more coal power.

IBBENBÜREN, Germany — The Germans have a word to describe the long goodbye. Abschiedsstimmung — which translates roughly to “the lingering feeling of saying goodbye or farewell” — could describe the ...

(Bloomberg) -- The protest started cheerfully enough on Wednesday, with music blaring and flags flying even under the driving rain. Then the police arrived, decked out in riot gear and backed by ...

Germany’s coal demand rose last year for the second year in a row, coal importers association VDKI warned this week—and the country will hang onto its coal usage for longer than the German government ...

BERLIN (AP) — Police in western Germany carried Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other protesters away Tuesday from the edge of an open coal pit mine where they demonstrated against the ...